THE FLOATING LADY IN WHITE
THE FLOATING LADY IN WHITE by mimi illenberger mapa It always had a reputation of being haunted, this old hacienda house somewhere in La Carlota, Negros Occidental. And so when I heard this story from two octogenarian aunts, I knew they were dead serious: Tita Inday and Tita Nena spent their long school holidays with their grandparents in an ancient Spanish colonial mansion in the center of a lush sugar cane plantation. The room they occupied during those holidays was the breeziest, the sunniest and the one which had the best view of the orchard with its ripening fruit trees. It was the guest room where two oldsters from Spanish descent, Lolo Jose and Lola Miling, reserved for special guests. This room was at the end of a long corridor to which three other large bedrooms opened. Anybody passing through this corridor could not avoid calling the attention of whoever were in the other rooms because of two reasons - the occupants habitually kept their doors ajar to keep